Suite Talk, April 7, 2011

Alex Hecht, former chief counsel to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), has been named vice president of government relations at ML Strategies.

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Hecht was a chief adviser to Snowe on the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and worked with her on other committees.

He also was a legislative analyst at the National Multi Housing Council and, earlier, a research clerk in the Maryland attorney general’s office.

Hecht, who has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the University of Houston, is also an adjunct assistant professor of health policy at The George Washington University.

Sheridan taps Allen Murray

Jill Allen Murray has joined the Sheridan Group as a senior policy and advocacy director.